Camera to watch bird feeder

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Nikumba

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At the weekend we put the new bird feeder up in the garden, now the other half is like "oh wish could see it from my craft room" so now looking for suggestions for a camera so she can watch the bird feeder.

My office window looks down at it so thought about a camera internally I could just plug into the mains, but not sure how good quality that would be, and the cats would no doubt knock it off because they are cats.

I do have power nearby externally so could always do an external wifi camera and plug it into the mains.

Anyone done similar or suggestions what could look at?

Thanks
 
Not got a window? Staring at a bird feeder all day sounds like something that could get very boring, very quickly.

Perhaps, a 2 in one solution. Get a ring / nest type security camera out back, covering the bird feeder. Set to record motion, so you can skip past the hours of nothing happening.
 
Bug One said:
Not got a window? Staring at a bird feeder all day sounds like something that could get very boring, very quickly
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Her craft room is at the front of the house so does not face the bird feeder hence looking at a camera system.

Would birds trigger motion detection on such cameras?
 
I've only got experience of ring cameras. They're very configurable. So, yes you could (although mine are configured not to)
 
For something a bit more fun you can buy bird boxes with cameras built in that work via wifi (or PoE ethernet if you have the availability to do so). You could then see bluetits (OCUK censors writing this properly... -.- ) nesting potentially.
 
Alexa Show + IP cam. You may need a server to run the IP camera software as Alexa apps time app quickly whereas opening a web server will stay open for ages.
 
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